Steep Terrain by Del Bigtree

Steep Terrain (The Highwire Episode 464)
Del Bigtree
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Del Bigtree ironically had a meeting of mind and body with a big tree on a ski slope somewhere recently. As a result, he opened the door on his show to the great virus debate—do they or don’t they exist? I’m kidding about cause and effect. He has had others on the show, and this show was probably already planned before the tree came along and smacked him, but he really did meet a tree that put him briefly in the emergency room. Fortunately, he appears to be OK.

This episode features Alec Zeck, Ben Tapper, DC and Katie Collins, PA-C. A well-prepared Zeck does a very good job of shooting down the virus hoax. He shows slides of studies, what the studies show and what they do not show. He references Can you Catch a Cold? by Daniel Roytas, as well as the work by the Baileys in New Zealand, Christine Massey in Canada, and Stefan Lanka in Germany. He suggests good alternative explanations that should be studied.

Dr. Ben Tapper seems to agree with Zeck generally. Tapper gives us some relevant history of the word “virus,” which used to just mean “poison.” Tapper believes viruses exist as originally defined. This goes along well with the point that we have mostly abandoned toxicology for fake viruses.

I give Del big credit for bringing them on the show and giving them airtime to make their case. The full episode is around three and a half hours, which some might consider painfully long, but not all of it is on the virus debate. (Between half an hour and one hour is other stuff I did not watch because I. . . just don’t care.) Bigtree also mentions Tom Cowan and Andy Kaufman, who are big names in the real world where viruses don’t exist. He even shows a picture of the book The Contagion Myth and explains why the name of the book changed because of Amazon’s games. He says he wanted to have Tom Cowan on the show, but Tom doesn’t like to travel (which I know to be true, especially by plane). Del makes an excellent point about science being the art of finding what you are looking for (whether it is true or not).

On the other hand, Del seems to see the question of the reality of viruses as purely academic and divisive, at least right now, and he sees his court cases against vaccine mandates and in favor of bodily autonomy as the winning strategy. Del’s approach may be getting results in the short run, and I am grateful for his efforts. Neither I nor any of the panelists on the show have any desire to disrupt what Del is doing. I don’t think this subject needs to be divisive. Both approaches should be respected. Del goes into detail showing the success of his efforts so far and that is great. He also applauds Zeck’s efforts and encourages him to continue.

I do not agree that the question of the reality of viruses is academic. While I am all for battles against unscientific mandates, I think those battles will keep coming back with different names and faces until we get down to the bedrock of truth. Getting people to understand that viruses are in the same category as cooties and Easter bunnies pulls the rug out from under all the vaccine scams and pandemic panics. As Sun Tzu said (and I paraphrase), until we understand what we are really up against, we lose. Nevertheless, the thumb is UP.

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